TAKE COFFEE: A LUXURY IN VENEZUELA

The coffee bush was brought to Venezuela by the Castilian missionaries, in the third decade of the 18th century. The Jesuit Father José Gumilla planted it on the banks of the Orinoco and that's where the fruit was obtained for the first time. From here it was extended in the following years by good part of the territory of the General Captaincy of Venezuela. And for more than two centuries the aromatic coffee has accompanied the Venezuelan table for any reason.

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The harvest was abundant that time, which is why the neighboring beneficiaries decided to celebrate a celebration for this reason. The party, which occurred at the end of 1786, began with a walk of the assistants through the coffee plantations loaded with red fruits. Then the music was heard and the bodies danced for a while on the track prepared for it. Then came the succulent lunch at which end the diners gathered around the main table where they had placed numerous cups of porcelain, appropriate to receive the fragrant liquid from the fruit of the coffee tree, the main reason for that festivity.

According to the custom of each person and the place where you are, at any time, from breakfast to dinner, it is almost mandatory to have a cup of coffee after meals, early in the morning, at work during the working day, With a cigarette, with friends to accompany sorrows and joys, to delight a delicious dessert, in the afternoon, before dinner and even after it, coffee is a faithful companion of those whose jobs require them to stay awake all night .

In Venezuelan households, coffee occupies an important habit of consumption, associated with dietary practices, as well as interpersonal relationships. Coffee is shared at all times with neighbors, friends and family. Coffee consumption is deeply rooted in family traditions and customs. It is in the family nucleus where this practice of consumption begins and consolidates.

It is prepared in different ways, according to the taste of the consumer. Brown, light brown, dark brown, with milk, bottle, guayoyo, guarapo, long, short, double, cappuchino, are some of the words that are used in Venezuela to order a coffee. In truth, drinking coffee between friends and family is a national institution.
However, what was not achieved before any of the national tragedies, wars, natural phenomena, bad economic policies, got this nefarious character right now entrenched in Miraflores: snatched the good habit of drinking coffee.

It is what abounds now in this country of dead houses. Destruction, death, ruin, poverty, hunger, disease, diaspora, violence, robbery, corruption, embezzlement, are the words that best describe the results of the calamitous management of Maduro and his civic-military combo. Havoc is what has brought to Venezuela this fatal combination of military and civilians in the exercise of political and economic power, to the point that this creole habit of consuming a coffee has disappeared in our country.

There are several causes of the ruin suffered by the production and consumption of coffee in Venezuela today. In the first place, the serious error committed with the expropriation of several coffee processing industries, among others: Fama de America, Café Madrid, San Antonio, brands that flooded the shelves of markets and supermarkets in the country. Second, the expropriation of numerous coffee plantations carried out during the government of Hugo Chávez.